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CodePlex Videos on Port 25
Interested in CodePlex? Subscribe to the CodePlex tag on Port 25 . As of the date of this post there are two interviews ( Sara Ford's and mine with timeline thanks to Sara) along with a blog post by Bryan Kirchner in which he discusses "two of the most Read More...
Is there a tag for this event?
A few minutes ago, I turned to Dave Bost , MS developer evangelist in the Midwest region, and asked, "Is there a tag for this event?" Dave replied, "I've heard a lot of geeky things, this week. That's just another one to add to the list. MTS06 ," he concluded Read More...
Released: Visual Studio .NET SCC Plugin for gotdotnet Workspaces
As Peter Bromberg notes, we recently released an updated source control plug-in* for gotdotnet Workspaces that enables you to work on projects stored in gotdotnet (check in, check out, and other source control operations) from the comfort of your very Read More...
Enumerating the # and names of files in a VSS folder
A customer asked me this question via email today. Unable to remember how to do this (I've been off VSS for over a year), I pinged one of the VSS team's awesome developers, Alin, who promptly responded with this gem: "You can use VSS Automation to find Read More...
gotdotnet CodeGallery has left the station
I am proud to announce the public release of CodeGallery , the newest member of the gotdotnet family. Gotdotnet.com is the community website where professional Windows and .NET developers from around the world can contribute and consume code samples, Read More...
TechEd Europe: Dev 466 Team Foundation Source Control
I'm blogging to you live from the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam, Netherlands where Ashwin Karuhatty and Brian Randall are introducing European developers and IT professionals to Visual Studio Team Foundation version control (or source control, if you Read More...
Source Control, GotDotNet, VS.NET, and Dream Job #3
Tone Engel reports that, "Joined the FlexWiki GotDotNet group last night for source code access which is provided through a custom source code control provider that integrates with Visual Studio."* I am an avid FlexWiki and GotDotNet user/contributor Read More...
VSS Analyze Script #4
Okay, I give in. Who is behind the new DevelopmentNow blog ? Whoever it is, they just posted a VSS database analysis script (Win script...untested by me) that provides a third alternative to the two scripts (one PERL, one VBScript) and link to a third Read More...
Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Locking vs Exclusive Checkouts
Adam Singer , the newest addition to my blogroll, recently blogged about the Lock Command in Visual Studio Team Foundation . Even if you don't have a CTP or beta build of Visual Studio 2005 Team System, I recommend his post. Locking in VSTS points to Read More...
How To: Win an Autographed Visual Studio 2005 Baseball
In response to my previous post, Inspired Software Development::VSS Performance Improvements , Jason Mauss provides an excellent VSS performance tip: "Most people administrating VSS don't seem to know about setting the CP_OnSelection value to NO. This Read More...
Inspired Software Development::VSS Performance Improvements
With all the hubbub around Visual Studio Team Foundation --which will be available for download for the first time, later this week (!)--you might be wondering what's happening with Visual SourceSafe. Well, the SourceSafe team is hard at work on the next Read More...
VSSEMS - a Utility for SourceSafe Administrators
Currently, it is not possible to migrate or copy a list of users and their concominant rights/assignments from an existing VSS database to another one, using either shipped VSS features or programmatically, using IVSS. However, our capable friends in Read More...
Microsoft's New Source Code Control Application
WoooHooo! I can finally write about the project I've been working on these last few months: Microsoft's source control solution for the Twenty First Century: Source Code Control Services for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (its friends just call Read More...
Pin: the “Share my greatest, not my latest” Feature in VSS
If you code like me, your latest version of a file or project is almost never your greatest. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mark a version of a file or changeset as “use this one!” so that your teammates would stop bugging you Read More...
My Blog Year in Review
It is often said that weblogging really took off on the day when you started blogging...or when I started blogging, as the case may be. This adage reminds me of a question that all Microsoft employees are asked on their first day of work. Q: What is the Read More...
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